Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi‐natural Experiment for Peru

Alberto Chong, Virgilio Galdo and Maximo Torero

Economica, 2009, vol. 76, issue 304, 623-648

Abstract: We take advantage of a quasi‐natural experiment in Peru in which a privatized telecommunications company was required by the government to randomly install and operate public pay phones in small rural towns throughout the country. Using an especially designed household survey for a representative sample of rural towns, we are able to link access to telephone services with household income. We find that, regardless of income measurement, most characteristics of public telephone use are positively linked with income. Remarkably, the benefits are given at both non‐farm and farm income levels. The findings hold when using propensity score matching methods.

Date: 2009
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